plampani@dpls (Patrick Lampani) (06/16/91)
This is probably a really basic question.... but I can't find the answer and I'm still really new to UNIX. I just downloaded a bunch of compressed files. Most of these files are like : TeX3.0.tar.Zaa TeX3.0.tar.Zab TeX3.0.tar.Zac . . . TeX3.0.tar.Zaz How do I uncompress these files, with out having to rename them,then uncompress them and then un tarring them? Is their some other program I'm supposed to use? Thank in advance. -Patrick Lampani
paul@music.sie.arizona.edu (Paul J. Sanchez) (06/16/91)
sorry to waste bandwidth, but i tried e-mail and my mailer couldn't figure out where you are. from your description, it looks as though the files were split by the "split" command. they should be "cat"ed back together before uncompressing and untarring. if you want to see the contents without actually physically joining them, you can pipe a series of commands to achieve your objective. try cat TeX3.0.tar.Z* | zcat | tar tvf - to see a listing of the distribution. to actually unpack, do exactly the same pipeline but substitute "xvf" for "tvf". don't forget that dash at the end... good luck, let me know if you have problems. --paul paul@music.sie.arizona.edu
gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) (06/16/91)
In article <1991Jun15.122519.1209@doug.cae.wisc.edu> plampani@dpls (Patrick Lampani) writes: >I just downloaded a bunch of compressed files. Most of these files are like : > TeX3.0.tar.Zaa > .. > TeX3.0.tar.Zaz >How do I uncompress these files, with out having to rename them,then uncompress >them and then un tarring them? Is their some other program I'm supposed to use? From the file names I'd guess that this is a batch of files produced by applying the "split" utility to TeX3.0.tar.Z. Before uncompressing, you would have to unsplit the large file. E.g.: $ cat TeX3.0.tar.Z?? | uncompress | tar xvf -